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grounds ten days ago, is hob
bling around on crutches in
New York today. He may not
be back with the Phillies until
midseason. Dooin and Magee,
however, will be in the line-up
in a day or two. Both acted as
pinch hitters in the ninth yes
terday. .
Ty Cobb and Milan of .the
Washington team are having a
great race for base" stealing hon
ors this year. The Geprgia peach
has swiped four cushions in the
last two games and the Washing
ton flyer has grabbed off one
more.
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Johnny Kflbane showed he was
not a bloomer last night by de
cisively txirnrning Frankie Burns
in New York. The champion was
a front runner all the, way.
IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO
DO READ THIS
Maybe you wonJt believe this
story that we are about to per
petrate. Maybe we don'tielieve
hV
But withhold criticism. Be
charitable. These ate parlous
times, with the high cost of Hy
ing, the cost of high living, and
the increase in the price of beer
from five to ten cents a pint, fore
ing a, man to resort to most any
thing to collect the necessary
change to make a showing.
It is just such little things as
this that enable poor correspond
ents writing at space rates to
blow blonde stenographers or
, cMnerahjejiaird, cfapijis jjjs-p Jcoreil
a $1.98 feed every now and ttieh.
And it also enables telegraph
operators, who are steady men,
and do not flirt or flirt with
queenS of thekey or stage, to supi
port families.
But we nearly forgot the story.
Here it is :
St. Louis, May 14. A five-ton
motor truck bearing the license
No. 1313 lupset an ice "wagon, in
jured one of the horses so that it
had to be shot, and tore out the
front of a building bearing the
number 1313 N. 12th- street, to
day. Mackey Williams, the ne
gro driver, nearly fainted when
he saw the combination of "un
lucky" numbers. In addition, the
address of the firm owning the
truck is 5125 Second street, these,
numbers totaling 13, and the ne
grok home address has the iig
ures 625, also 43
rAVhat 3b you think of it? It
reminds us 'of the telegraph story-
sent out from, Nome, Alaska, that
it wasso cojd the natives couldn't
shave, but were freezing their
beards and breaking them off.
There's only .one thing we can't
understand, and that is - .
Why didn't the correspondent
make it ajjood story by sending
it out on the 13th of May?
o Oj r-
i When we.see a man strike
'an attitude there's always, a
strong temptation to hit hira
in return.
Speaking of breakfast, what
would jt be -without the box